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What kind of bug is this?

Started by Jim_Rogers, February 13, 2013, 12:00:26 PM

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What kind of bug is this?



We seem to be having a lot of them around here lately.

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Raider Bill

Almost looks like what we call a stink bug but the head looks longer.
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justallan1

Kind of looks like a box elder beetle.
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beenthere

Look up Conifer Seed Bug, and see if it matches up.
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lowpolyjoe

Quote from: Raider Bill on February 13, 2013, 12:08:28 PM
Almost looks like what we call a stink bug but the head looks longer.

We have little critters that look very similar to that at my place all the time.  Never seen them till i moved to NJ.  My wife told me they're "stink bugs" as Bill said.  I do notice there are typically long thin ones and shorter ones.  I figured it was male/female or something but never looked it up. 

Haven't researched it (yet).  Hope they aren't too much of a troublemaker.  I've never seen them do any harm - in fact i rarely see them move at all.  Tuned in to hear what the experts say

Oh i see BeenThere posted - after looking up that Conifer Seed Bug and the Stink bug (linked in the Wiki article) i think the two different bugs i see are those two different species.

"They [Stinkbug] also are commonly eaten in Laos"  .....   guess i'll never go hungry  :-X

wildbill

Young leaf foot bug.  I get them in the garden on cucumbers

I think
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pappy19

I believe their official name is assasin bug. In our log home, we have seen quite a few in the past couple of years, not sure why.

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Quote from: pappy19 on February 13, 2013, 12:46:56 PM
I believe their official name is assasin bug. In our log home, we have seen quite a few in the past couple of years, not sure why.

Pap

It looks like an Assassin Bug. Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmV6TjVNZGM
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lowpolyjoe

Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on February 13, 2013, 12:55:06 PM

It looks like an Assassin Bug. Check this out:

oh man those things are creepy

Cypressstump

pick the lil' feller up and take a smell ov' him... pukey !

we call them stinkbugs and they shore do stink.

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Tim Lea

looks like a stink bug.. what ever it is it's ugly... :D

Cedarman

Stinkbugs are almost as wide as they are long. They do not have an elongated head or the fins in the legs.  Not a stinkbug.
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Cedarman

Assassin bugs are more warty.  I'm going with conifer seed bug.
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Jim_Rogers

Thanks for all your comments and links.

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gspren

  Like others have said stink bugs are wider, they also look sort of like a shield.
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Chuck White

To me, it looks like a Pine Beetle!
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Sonofman

It looks like a slight crunch as I am walking across the yard to me. :D
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sprucebunny

It looks just like the bugs I get in my house every winter that smell when you crush them. It might have a different proper name but I call them stink bugs  ;)

There is often one waiting in the sink for me when I go to brush my teeth. I must have gotten sensitive to them... my upper lip goes numb when I smell one ::)
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ArborJake

  I say stink bug.  smiley_airfreshener I believe the conifer seed bug and stink bug are the same bug. Nomanclature . They try to get inside once the weather starts to turn cooler. Last few years there has been alot of them around here.
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Jim_Rogers

Ok, so how do they get inside my mother's house?

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justallan1

This is the ones that are called box elder beetles here, and yup, they sure migrate indoors in the winter. I just took this picture.
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Quote from: Jim_Rogers on February 14, 2013, 08:03:30 AM
Ok, so how do they get inside my mother's house?

Jim Rogers

I get the same bugs in my house and a whopping dose of the box elder beetles that justallan1 posted as well every fall.  Just found one in the shower this morning, in fact.  At my house I'm pretty convinced they're getting in through cracks in the soffits and fascia.  I also noticed I had a bad seal on the threshold of my walkout basement door so I sprayed some pesticide on the inside edge of it just to see what happened.  A few days later I found a large pile of dead box elder beetles just inside the door so clearly that was a preferred route.

SwampDonkey

I get similar bugs like Joan said. They can get in if house flies get in. These old farm houses are house fly havens in winter and they keep coming like the Borg. :D
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tgalbraith

We have had that same bug during winter months here for the past couple years.
From what I could determine from doing a internet search, they are a " squash beetle".
They do have a very bad odor when you disturb them.  They at least twice as long as
a stink bug, but may be related.
If anyone comes up with a way to get rid of them, post it quick.


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SwampDonkey

The trouble is, these aren't beetles (the original post by Jim), they are in the order of insects called 'long-horned bugs' which in Latin is Hemiptera in suborder Gymnocerata. They don't have hardened forewings.
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CHARLIE

Jim, I believe what you have is a Squash Bug (Anasa tristis).
http://www.organicgardeninfo.com/squash-bug.html

I have a lot of problems with Box Elder bugs and once in a while would find a Squash Bug.  At first I thought it was just a huge Box Elder bug but my wife told me what they were because she fights them in her garden.

I've found the cheapest way to kill Box Elder bugs and Squash bugs is by spraying them with dish detergent diluted with enough water so it will spray good.  I kill thousands of them from their nymph stage to their adult stage and they just keep on coming.  It is a losing battle but a good way to vent my frustrations. ;D
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